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- Conditions at Time
Of Manufacture Fix
Wage-Hour Basis
Later Developments
Are Not Considered
By Administration
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By the A.iaoclated Pre««.
The Wage-Hour Administration,
amplifying its interpretation of the
Pair Labor Standards Act, ruled
yesterday that circumstances at the
, time goods are manufactured for
market—not some subsequent de
velopment—determine whether an
employe is covered by the law.
Basically, the act applies to em
ployes engaged in Interstate com
merce or in the production of goods
for Interstate commerce, but com
plex and borderline cases have
arisen to complicate its administra
tion.
Subsequent interstate movement
of goods originally produced by an
employer, who had reason to be
lieve they would be used only wltnin
the State of production, would not
bring the employes of the manu
facturer under the Wage-Hour Act,
k officials said.
* Borderline Cases Explained.
The administration cited these
eases to show conditions under
which the act would or would not
’ apply to employes:
A manufacturer produces shirts
to fill the order of a local. retail
dealer in the same State. The re
tailer goes bankrupt and his stock
Is sold to an out-of-State mer
chant. The ultimate Interstate ship
ment of the shirts does not subject
the employer to the act.
The same manufacturer fills an
order for an out-of-Stale dealer.
The order is destroyed by fire be
fore the shirts are shipped. The
* manufacturer is subject to the act
because, regardless ot the - loss by
fire, his employes produced goods
for Interstate commerce.
A producer makes buttons for an
’ Interstate shirt manufacturer and
another produces lumber for a fur
niture manufacturing company. The
buttons and the lumber, in the eyes
of the administration, are ‘'ingre
dients” of shirts and of furniture
moving in interstate commerce.
Hence the wage-hour law applies to
the buttonmakers and the sawmill
m workers.
Cutters and Manufacturers.
An interstate garment manufac
turer engages an independent con
tractor in the same State to cut ma
terials. After cutting, the materials
go back to the manufacturer .-.for
^ finishing. The act applies to the
cutter's employes.
Employes of a baker whose prod
ucts are sold locally, although he
obtains his flour from out of State,
are excluded from the act.
Employes of a small mine which
sells all its coal locally to an inter
* state manufacturing plant are ex
cluded.
A local building contractor's em
ployes are not covered because they
do not produce goods sold or shipped
across a State line, but some of the
contractor's employes hauling ma
terials in interstate transportation
may come under the act.
Tests Show Women Mix
Driving and Drinking
Women combine drinking and
driving as much as men when the
number of women driving at various
hours of the day is considered, Lt.
F. M. Kreml of the Northwestern
University Traffic Institute, told the
Highway Research Board yesterday
at the closing session of its 18th an
nual meeting.
He based that finding on tests
made of 2.020 drivers.
Lt. Kreml said the highest per
centage of drinking drivers occurs
in the early morning hours and over
the week end. The peak age for
l drinking drivers is from 25 to 30, he
■ aaid the tests showed.
“It has not yet been objectively
and conclusively proved just how
i important a causative factor alcohol
is, and. because of the complexity of
the whole accident problem, it may
never be proved,” the speaker said.
“The data gathered in this study,
however, point in one direction only.
They confirm a self-evident fact
that alcohol is a major cause of auto
mobile accidents.”
D. Grant Mickle, assistant director
of the Michigan State Highway De
4 partment, told the board that the
traffic officer’s job “is no longer one
that can be carried out successfully
by the casual police officer or the
untrained novice.” The position
should be raised to "expert and pro
fessional standing,” he declared.
Bandit in Overalls Robs
Liquor Store of $35
Albert Lawrence, proprietor of a
liquor store at 2005 M street N.W.,
was held up and robbed of $35 last
right two minutes before closing
time by a white man, described as
large and wearing overalls.
In another hold-up Prank J. Kohl
man. clerk in a haberdashery at
422 Ninth street N.W., was robbed
of $25 by an armed white man.
Mr. Kohlman reported to police the
b man came in and pretended he
Wanted to look at some hats
Sam Buckman, a salesman of
Brooklyn, N. Y., reported to police
■jthat 12 small radios, valued at
$78.80, were stolen last night from
his automobile, parked in the 1800
block of Seventh street N.W.
Nature Walk Today
In Soapstone Valley
A nature walk through the rocky,
little known gorge of Soapstone Val
ley Parkway, betweeh Connecticut
avenue and Rock Creek, will be held
lrom 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. today, under,
auspices of the office of National
Capital Parks.
Those wishing to make the trip
are asked to meet Ranger Naturalist
Arthur W. Shively at the southeast
corner of Connecticut avenue and
Albemarle street N.W., at 2:30 p.m.
Two Are Guillotined
By Reich for Treason
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. 3.—Two men, ap
parently members of the German
Army, were put to death on the4
guillotine early today lor “treason.”
< An official announcement said
v death sentences Imposed by a court ■
Mkrtlal had been carried out on I
„ Bruno Trojaner and Berthold i
fWhne. both accused of revealing '
Military' secrets to unnamed foreign I
powers. 1
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SANTA CLAUS LANE OPENED—William T. Gary,; president of the Columbia Heights Busi
nessmen’s Association; Arleen Whelan, movie actress, and Santa Claus, pictured at the open
ing of the Santa Claus Lane on Fourteenth street last night. —Star Staff Photo.
Arms Race Attacked
By Senator Borah;
Favors Defense
Declares People Will
Demand Voice in
Going to War
By the Associated Press.
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho, predicted today that if the
; United States Joined the “hysteri
! cal" world armaments race, popular
I sentiment would force Congress to
I approve a constitutional amendment
| giving the people the right to de- j
clare any but a defensive war.
“If this huge armament trend con- !
tinues. he said, “the people are
j going to demand a voice in this j
matter of going to war. Twelve !
men today could plunge the world
into war without consulting a sin
! gle citizen."
He did not identify the men.
From another member of Congress
came the assertion, meantime, that
greatly increased defensive arma
ments were absolutely necessary
Taylor Favors Defense.
Chairman Taylor of the House
Appropriations Committee said it
was apparent that confidence could
not be placed In treaties. Hs said
he would support any needed de
fense measures, "regardless of cost,”
and thought air defenses especially
should be strengthened.
The Coloradoan indicated he be
lieved there would be no trouble
getting passage of a defense bill.
Senator Borah, dean of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, said
that if an armament program which
he considered "excessive” was pre
sented to Congress, he probably
would support the Ludlow Amend
ment.
The proposed amendment, spon
sored by Representative Ludlow.
Democrat, of Indiana, was shelved
in the House during the last session
of Congress after President Roose
velt and Secretary of State Hull had
expressed opposition.
It would make it necessarv for j
Congress to refer to a vote of the
people the question of declaring war
except in the case of foreign in
vasion of I fils hemisphere . j
Will Seek House Vote. “i
Representative Ludlow, who won
re-election in a campaign in which
he asked the voters to return him
to office or defeat him on the
amendment issue alone, has an
nounced he will seek an immediate
House vote on his proposal.
Several Senators joined in in
tn ducing a similar amendment, but
it was not considered by the Senate.
Senator Borah said he would not
oppose a 'reasonable'’ armaments
program.
“I think there is some reason for
increasing our air forces," he added,
"but I don’t believe that it is nec
essary for us to build up a huge
Navy beyond our needs for defense
purposes ”
Another House minority member,
Representative Maas, Republican,
of Minnesota, expressed the opinion
that a "shake-up” was needed in
the Navy.
Blaming the present Navy organ
ization for many delays in warship
construction. Representative Maas
said he would introduce a bill to
establish a general staff for the Navy
similar to the Army’s. The Minne
sotan is the ranking Republican on
the House Naval Affairs Committee.
He proposed a Navy general staff
last session, but no action was taken.
The Navy Department opposed his
bill.
Construction Delayed.
Oflfcial reports have disclosed that
construction on some warships has
been delayed several months. Navy
circles have heard that controver
sies between bureaus resulted in
some delays. Wie Engineering, Con
struction and Repair Bureaus all
have an independent voice in ship
construction.
One point of controversy is under
stood to have been what type boilers
should go into the new battleships.
This was reported to have resulted
in the Navy General Boards in
dorsement this week of new high
pressure, *super-heat boilers, criti
cised by some officers as experi
mental and unproved.
Secretary Swanson had referred
the controversy to the board after
reports of a shakeup of inspection
and survey board officers reached
Presid*nt Roosevelt's attention.
The General Board decided, in
fortned persons said, that the new
type power plants were more effi
cient and economical than other de
signs and gave the warships added
cruising range. •
Dies Committee
Meeting Called Off
B» tl)e A«*od»t»d Prf»».
A scheduled meeting of the House
Committee on Un-American Activ
ities was called off today.
Committee attaches explained
that Chairman Dies was out of
the city and- that Representative
Starnes, Democrat, of Alabama,
who had arranged to conduct a
hearing, was indisposed.
John J. Keegan, Portland (Oreg.)
detective captain, had been sched
uled to testify today concerning
Communist activity on the Wert
Coast.
Chest
— Continued Prom First Page.)_
which have recently passed the 100
per cent mark In the quota race in
clude Extension Service, Agriculture
Department, captained by William
C. Lehmann, 100.80 per cent; Food
„and Drug Administration, Agricul
ture Department, L. M. Clarke,
100.08 per cent; solicitor’s office,
Agriculture Department, Patrick H.
Loughran, 100 per cent; Civilian
Conservation Corps, W. Vincent
McGuire, 100 per cent; patent office,
Commerce Department, James A.
Brearly, 100.52 per cent; economic
adviser's office, Federal Trade Com
mission, Edith Giddings, 260 per'
cent; secretary’s office, Federal
i Trade Commission, Jane Harrity,
100 per cent; audit, General Ac
! counting Office, C. 8. Feeser, 100.9
, per cent; Maintenance, Government
I Printing Office, Willard A. Ander
son, 100.05 per cent; Geological
Survey, Interior Department, W.
| C. Mendenhall, 101.33 per cent;
! chief clerk, Post Office Depart
ment, A. T. Davis, 101.34 per cent;
Freer Gallery of Art, Eleanor
Thompson, 118.57; Federal Alcohol
Administration. Treasury Depart
ment, W. S. Alexander-D. R. Bar
bee, 100.50; Alcohol Tax Unit, In
ternal Revenue, Edward L. Spring
er. 101.74; Venereal Diseases, Public
Health Service, R. A. Vonderlehr,
112.84; Land Review, United States
Housing Authority. J. M. Hudgins,
103.54; United States Soldiers’
Home, Col. Matt C. Bristol, 100;
Chief of Chaplains. War Depart
ment, A. S. Goodyear. 103.19; Pre
cinct No. 1, Metropolitan Police De
partment, Capt. Harvey G. Calla
han, 102.88; Precinct No. 2, Metro
politan Police Department, Capt.
Jeremiah A. Sullivan, 100.41; Powell j
Junior High School. L. T. Walter,
102.20; Board of Public Welfare, El
wood Street, 110.28; Home for the
Aged and Infirm, B. P. W„ Frank B.
Haskell, 108.87; Workhouse and Re
formatory, Ray L. Huff. 108.24.
* Soliciting Continued.
Volunteers in the Capital Unit,
which reaches a large part of Wash
ington’s colored population, have
refused to stop at the 71 per cent
mark, lie reported in the November
30 audit, and will continue soliciting
until they boost their percentage of '
quota to 80 per cent.
In the Suburban Unit. Fairfax I
County, Va., is still leading with i
117.68 per cent of its quota attained, i
.Montgomery County. Md., is next
with 94 62 per cent. Alexandria, Va„
has 87.57 per cent of its quota;
Wince Georges County, 45.07 per
cent, and Arlington County. Va.,
43.72 per cent. The percentage of
quota attained by the entire unit
stands at 76 per cent.
The highest average contribution
in the unit was recorded in Mont
gomery County, where gifts aver
aged 89.30.
Several divisions in that county
have oversubscribed their quotas,
the school employes 105 per cent;
county banks, 317 per cent; Pooles
ville and Dawsonville, 240 per cent;
Darnestown, 175 per cent; Olney,
Sandy Spring, Brookeville, Ashton,
Brinklow and Brighton, 198 per
cent; Wheaton, 116 per cent, and
Bethesda, 123 per cent. Silver
Spring, with 99 per cent, and Chevy
Chase, with 93 per cent, according
to present figures, are expected to
exceed their quotas during the next
few days. •
Strike
(Continued Prom Firfjt Page.)
back to work as government em
ployes.
The requisition order had been is
sued after the Ship Stewards’ Union
planned a strike upon reports the
government had decided to arrest
union delegates.
French Line officials, naval au
thorities and representatives of the
ministry of merchant marine con
ferred on possible measures to en
able the Norma.tiie to sail on time.
They considered replacing strikers
with najiy seamen and waiters and
stewards from ntarby hotels.
The next French liner scheduled
to sail for New York after the Nor
mandie is the Paris December 7.
Ship Strike Causes
Daladier New Trouble
Bl the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 3.—A general ship
ping strike in Le Havre today de
layed sailings of the giant liner
Normandie despite a government j
order requisitioning all of the 60
vessels in the" crowded port.
The maritime strike brought new
difficulties to the Daladier govern
ment, already faced with other labor
troubles and with Italian demand!
for French territory.
Boat-trains failed to leave Paris
for Le Havre this morning. French
Line officials said a new hour of
departure had not been set.
f Warrants Issued for 3.
The merchant marine ministry,
whose requisition order placed the
ship crewsr under military control,
announced warrants had been
issued for the arrest of three jnari
time union leaders.
Ont man was arrested and two
were being sought, a ministry an
nouncement declared, after investi
gation of “machinations of ; union
secretaries to provoke the strike.”
The 333 American volunteers who
emerged from government Spain
yesterday, most of them with third
class tickets on the Normandie, got
as fat as Le Havre, Where their
special train was shunted.
President Arranges
Time to Prepare
Chapel Hill Speech
Will Take Breakfast
With Gov. Johnston
Next Monday
E| the Antedated Frees.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 3 —
President Roosevelt arranged an
easy week-end schedule for himself
today to allow ample time for work
on the speech he will deliver at
Chapel Hill, N. C., late Monday after
noon.
No important engagements were
on his calendar as he prepared to !
Wind up a two weeks’ sojourn at his j
mountain cottage here marked by |
conferences on international affairs i
and congressional preliminaries.
The Chief Executive, looking fit j
for the busy days ahead after long i
daily rides in sharply variable weath- I
er. will start back to Washington
Sunday night.
Will Visit Governor.
En route to Chapel Hill, where he
will address a non-partisan Univer
sity of North Carolina student group
known as the Carolina Political
Union, he will stop for two hours at
Columbia. S. C.
There he will have breakfast at
the State Executive Mansion with
Gov. Olin D. Johnston, and probably
make a few informal remarks at the
State Capitol before resuming his
trip northward.
The Chapel Hill address, to be
broadcast over national radio chains,
will be made around 4:30 p.m. <E. S.
T.), according to present arrange
ments.
Theme Not Announced.
The theme of the speech has not
been announced. The President yes
terday told newspaper men he had
liven no thought to the subject, when
asked whether he would discuss in
ternational affairs.
It was reported here the President
would receive an honorary degree of
doctor of laws before the address. He
is expected to be in Chapel Hill only
about an hour and a half.
The itinerary calls for his arrival
In Washington Tuesday morning,
when, with little or no delay, he will
begin "digging in” as he put it, to
get ready for the Congress opening r
month from today and continue his
conferences on minority persecutions
abroad.
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Physicians' Committee
Disagrees With A. M. A.
B.» the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Dec. 3 —
Morr freedom In experimenting with
medical -cere than volcad in prin
ciples adopted by the American
Medical Association two months ago
was recommended yesterday by the
Committee of Physicians for the
%nprovement of Medical Care.
The committee, with around 1.000
members, started a little more than
a year* ago as the “Committee of |
400,” a group rebelling at some strict;
traditions maintained by the Ameri
can Medical Association. The lat- i
ter s house of delegates revised some
of these and declared in favor of
State and Federal tax money to aid
in medical care of the impoverished.
The house recommended that hos
pital insurance should “not include
any type of medical care.” The com
mittee yesterday disagreed, favoring
extension of voluntary hospital in
surance to include medical services, j
Four recommendations were made
by the committee. One, consolida
tion of Government health services.
Two, better co-ordination of health
service?, with encouragement of ex
periments in co-operatives and non
profit group medical practice. Three,
standards of administration and
professional competence that will
permit experiments in medical care
without obstruction by “punitive
measures. ’ Four, generous provisions
for education and Investigation.
It was declared that in experi
ments for medical care the con
sumer as well as physician must be
represented.
Lack of Soviet Envoy
Minimized by Welles
By the Associated Press.
Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary
of State, said today he did nyt Con
sider there was anything "remotw
ly significant" in the fact the United
States and Russia now are Unrepre
sented by ambassadors at each oth
er’s capitals.
The absence of envoys had led
diplomats here to believe a certain !
coolness might exist between the
two governments.
Mr. Welles said he undftstood
that about two months ago the
Soviet Ambassador, Alex&hder Tro
yanov sky, had said that for personal
reasons he was not returning to
this country. As for the appoint
ment of an American Ambassador,*?
Mr. Welles said that was iiof Presl-y
dent Roosevelt to discuss.
There has been no American Am
bassador in Moscow since Joseph
E. Davies was transferred to Brus
sels in June. President Roosevelt
said this week he did npt know
when he would appoint a successor
to Mr. Davies.
1
Movie Adress Opens
Santa Claus Lane in
Columbia Heights
Arleen Whelan Alio
Reigns at Shops'
Style Show
While hundreds of merchants and
residents of Columbia Heights
watched Santa Claus last night
teamed with a screen actress In offi
cially opening the 10th annual
“Santa Claus Lane” on upper Four
teenth street NW.
The white-bearded, jolly old
gentleman arrived in an airplane
float Just In time to see Arletti
Whelan of the movies light a torch
to slgnaliie the opening of the lane.
Brightly colored lights flashed on
along Fourteenth street, from Co
lumbia road to Newton street, and
the lane was declared open by Wil
liam f. Gary, president of the Co
lumbia Heights Business Men's As
sociation, sponsor of the celebration.
Miss Whelan chatted with Santa
Claus, business men and reporters
for a while and then walked across
the street to reign at a style show
presented by women's apparel shops
on Fourteenth street In the Arcade
Building. The show was followed
by a dance.
The actress said she hoped she
would be given an electric torch the
next time she opened a Christmas
lane.
"A spark burned a hole in my
dress ” she told reporters. She said
she didn't mind, though, adding:
“I like Washington and I think
Columbia Heights is the nicest sec
tion of a beautiful city.”
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
'Lane' Is Opened
Bethesda and Chevy Chase opened
the Christmas season officially last
night with their third annutl
Christmas lane celebration and pa
rade on Wisconsin avenue, climaxed
by the crowning of Miss Kuth Parks,
the queen, by John A. Overholt,
president of the Bethesda Chamber
of Commerce.
Through the brilliantly lighted
business section of Bethesda the pa;
rade wound its way from Bradley
lane past this reviewing stand at
Leland street to the Bank of Be
thesda, on the Old Georgetown road
Crowds estimated at between 8.00<t
and 10.000 lined the avenue to see
the 80 entries in the procession.
Legion Band Is Escort.
A company of Marine Reserves
from Rockville and the Fort Stevens
Post, American Legion, Band forirted
an escort for Miss Parks, who led
the parade. She was accompanied
by delegations from Leland Junior
High School, Chevy Chase Ele
mentary School. Glen Echo-Cabin
John School and the Bethesda
Chevv Chase High School.
Miss Parks received a silver loving
cup and a gold wrist watch from
the sponsors of the celebration and
procketbooks were presented to her
attendants. Miss Gladys Powell and
Miss Roberta Hammond.
Music was furnished by the Metro
politan Police Boy s Band and bands
of Job s Daughters, Boy Scouts of
Montgomery County, the Elks boys
unit and the Chestnut Farms Dairy.
Loving Cup Awarded.
Silver loving cups were awarded
the winners in the various classes
of the parade as follow's: Chevy
Chase High School, best appearing
entry from Montgomery County;
Chestnut Farms Dairy, best float
from outside Montgomery County;
Chevy Chase Elementary School,
best appearing Juvenile unit! .Job's
Daughters, best marching unit;
Frank Loria Plumbing Co., most
original float; Imirie's Garage, best
comic entry; Fort Stevens Band,
best musical unit, and Bethesda
Valet Service, most unusual entry.
The committee in charge of the
year s celebration consisted of Bur
rell H. Marsh, jr , chairman;'Leslie
B. Bell, vice chairman; Clarence C.
Reiser, treasurer; Ralnh B. Sadler,
secretary; W. H. WhitCesey and Mr.
Reiser, finance; Harry Wolfe, Jr„
lighting; John L. Imlrie, parade, and
John Henry Heiser, publicity.
Injured Woman Is Sent
To Gallinger Hospital
A woman giving the name of Mrs.
Evelyn Brown of the 600 block of
F street N.W. was treated at George
town Hospital last night for minor
head injuries. 3he was later trans
ferred to Gallinger Hospital for ob
servation, Georgetown Hospital ofll;
cials said today.
She was found on the Lee Boule
vard dear Arlington National Ceme
tery last night and was brought to
the hospital by a motorist. Arling
ton police had no report of the inci
dent this morning.
Church of the Epiphany
There will be a celebration of the
holy communion at the Church of
the Epiphany tomorrow at 8 a m., Tt
being the second Sunday in Advent.
At 11 o'clock there will be the choral
celebration of the communion, with
a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Z. B.
Phillips, who is giving a course of
sermons on "The Opportunities of
Life in Our Present Day Civilisa
tion.” The special theme for to
morrow will be "Qod's Revelation
to Men in the Bible.” The Young
People’s Fellowship will meet at
fl:30 p.m. At 8 p.m. there will be
evening prayer and sermon by the
Rev. Mr. Fraser.
at **
Albright Memorial
The series of sermons on "These
Fundamentals” will continue at Al
bright Memorise Evangelical Church
tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Sunday’s
subject will be “To God Through
Prayer.” The Rev. Oeorge E. Schha
bel will preach. At 7:45 pm. an
other hymn sing wpl be held. The
sermon, subject will be “When You
Become a Question Mark.”
* Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday
at 3 p.m. lor the Christmas pageant,
“The Prince of Peace.” The prayer
meeting will be held on Wednesday
night at the parsonage. On Fri
day night the Friendship Class will
sponsor a style show and comedy
sketch.
Beverage Men Elect
LYNCHBURG. Va., Dec. 3 C4>}.—
James* W. Rea, jr., of Danville, was
elected president of the Virginia
Manufacturers of Carbonated Bever
ages at tM conclusion of their 29th
contention yesterday.
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Stinnett Faces Life
In Prison for Slaying
Of Bachelor Farmer
NEW YORK.—ADIEU—Carry Grant (right), movie star, said
good-by to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Oakie with a kiss for Mrs. Oakle
and a handshake for Jack as the Oakies sailed for Europe aboard
the Queen Mary yesterday. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Jury Finds Him Guilty,
But Rules Against
D$ath Penalty
•j th» Aasselete&frtM.
PRINCE FREDERICK. Md., Dec.
3 —Walter Stinnett, 34, faced a life
In prison today for the Slaying df
William Warren Oantt, 55, bachelor
tobacco farmer Shot to death last
} July 12. . I
Deliberating three hours yrd a
half, a Circuit Court Jury last night
found^Stlmjttt guilty of first degree
murder, but ruled against the death
penalty. Chief Judge Walter J.
Mitchell said the Jury’s decision “re
lieved me of responsibility,” as-.the
life sentence is mandator*.
The youthful defendant, though
obviously shocked by the sentence,
accepted it In silence.
Still to b» tried for murder ape
Mrs. Evalyn Bajowski and Mrs. Mar
garet Abell, both 18, the latter the
mother df a 3-year-old daughter.
They were Involved in Stinnett's
testimony as to how the shooting
occurred.
Woman's Trial Is Friday.
Mrs. Abell will go on trial here
Friday. Mrs. Bajowski obtained a
change of venue to Frederick County.:
Mr. Gantt, wealthy and eccentric
; bachelor farmer who lived alone, j
! was slain on his tenant farm during
j what Stinnett described^® a "party."
The defendant said he and Gantt
were sitting in the latter's automo
bile, that he was "absolutely drunk,” j
and that he awoke to see Mrs. Abell j
pointing a gun at Gantt, who had :
i fallen from the car. He and Mrs.
I Bajowski and Mrg. Abell, he testl- I
1 fled, scrambled for the gun, and he
didn't know who pulled ?he trigger.
Defense Attorney John W. Muod
told the jury it was a, "wild orgy
which resulted so tragically in
Gantt's death."
Held Victim of Own Folly.
"The idea of getting the women
for the party was originated by
Gantt, and Gantt used Walter as a
decoy,” be asserted. "Walter is a
country boy, young and attractive,
while Oantt was well over 50 and
was aot attractive to the girls. He
was A victim of his own folly.”
State’s Attorney Arthur Doffell
insisted the murder was "commit
ted with premediation and malice
aforethought.” Theft of Gantt’s
money, he said, was the motive.
Stinnett's wife, Mrs. Blanche Stin
nett, 20, pleaded guilty to stealing ,
$900 from Oantt’s estate. »nd was I
sentenced to 18 months in the House j
of Correction. She said she found 1
the money in Gantt’s bam.
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Art Guild Pfoblcms
To Be Discussed
A meeting sponsored jointly by
the ;Progressive Education Associa
tion and the Children's Federal Art
Gallgry will be held Monday at 8
p.m. in the auditorium of the Na
,tional _ Education Atsociatiorv 1201
Sixteenth street N.W. )
A panel discussion on ’problems of
aif art guild wllibe led by Mrs. Russell
C. Parr, regional director of the
Federal Art Project of W. P. A.
Other speakers will be Miss Matilda j
McComaa, children's curator of the '
Baltimore Museum: Mr. Leon Wins
low, art director Of the Baltimore
public schools, aifd Mrs. Theodore
Nijrman. director of the Cambridge
Children's Gallery.
P.-T. A. Unit Postpones
Date for Meeting
Postponement of the special meet
ing of the Montgomery_Blair Par
ent-Teacher ^Association? originally
scheduled for December 7. was an
nounced today by Guy P. Mclntire.
president. The change was made
because of a date conflict with the
county-wide meeting, he said. An
nouncement as to the future date of
the meeting will be made through
the children to their parents. i
Reich Believed Turning Italy
Toward Tunisia for Expansion
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Purpose to Give Mussolini Compensation
For.Setback in Central Europe
Bv PERT IN AX.
PARIS. Dec. 3 <N.A.N.A.>.—There
is retfeon to believe that, on October
28. an exchange of views took place
about the Italian claims to Tunisia
between Premier Mussolini and For
eign Minister Ciano of Italy and
Foreign Minister \*on Ribbentrop of
Piermany, when the latter visited
Rome.* •
Von Ribbentrop’s task then was
to persuade the Italian government
to withdraw its support from the de
mand of Hungary and Poland for
partition between them of Ruthenia,
the eastern province of Czecho
slovakia. At first t*e Italian rulqf
resis^d the pressure that the Ger
man minister attempted to "bring
to^bear upon him. He explained
that the Fascist government, after
having sacrificed its protectorate,
ove’- Austria to the pln-Germaniat
cause, could not be expected to give
up all its influence in Central Eu
lBpe and abandon all its associates
there.
MussollPi argued further that the
Budapest and Warsaw governments
wouM cert»!:4y become estranged
frbm Italy i£ they did jid* succeed
in getting a common frontier, the1
only possibility for 4jiem to sur
vive as really independent states in
close proximity to the powerful Ger
man empire.
Von Ribbentrop Firm.
But Von Ribbentrop had been in*
structed not to give way on any ac*
count, since Germany, which now
holds Czecho-SIovakia in her grasp,
needs Ruthenla as the basis of a
political and military offensive to
be directed against Soviet Russia
and Rumania. He was therefore
compelled to tell his hosts that both
dictatorships could not be ercected
to live 4n harmony for any length
of time if they were to compete with
each other for political and eco
nomic advantages in the middle of
the continent, and he added that
the Rome government had better
look toward Tunisia for material
gains which might bear comparison
with those wbn by the Reich in the
Danube area since last March.
It is even said that Von Ribben
trop explained that the best method
the Fascist power could follow to
promote its ambition in Northern
Africa was to insist that the Italian
settlers in Tunisia should be grant
ed the right of self-determination,
and that what Chancellor Hitler
had done last summer to fees tha
Sudeten Oermans from Csecho
Slovak shackles could be used as a
precedent.
Von Ribbentrop won his'point,
and, on October 31, the award about
which he agreed in Vienna with
Count Ciano settled the whole Ru
theniatr problem on terms which
conformed with the requirements of
German diplomacy.
Nevertheless. Von Ribbentrop and
other German leaders not ap
prove of the morifjnt and of the
noisy procedure that Mussolmi has {
chosen for promoting his uislgns
against Prance. They are of the
opinion that the clamorous demon
stration In the Italian Cfrimber last
Wednesday Is seriously alarming
Prance and rekindling in her the
spirit of resistance to the *ctall
tarian states at*che very moment
when Premier Daladier, having de
feated the general strike, feels ln
I dined to initiate an authoritative
mode of government and might be
induced by his foreign minister,
Georges Bonnet, to carry out a pol
icy of rapprochement with Germany
and of all-around ‘‘Glelchschal
ttmg.” •
> Would It not have been safer and
more cfbver for Italy to keep quiet j
while German diplomacy endeavored |
to jvrest frhm the Paris ministry a
more or less explicit assurance that
; Franca would remain neutral if the
1 conquest of the Ukraine wef% under
taken?
Italy's retort to that question can
eaally be guessed. She Is tired of
feeing left empty-handed in the
background, arid is. impatient to
emulate tha german expansion. She
cannot accept that enforcement of
hgr North African program should
be left in suspense indefinitely so
that Germany’s dealings with
France should not be Interfered
with. Hitherto, in* the German
Italian consortum, risks and profits
have not been fairly distributed, and
it is high time that that balance
should be restored.
Declaration Jeopardized.
The probabilities are that M. Da
ladier and M. Bonnet will put a
pointed question to Von Ribbentrop
when hey meet him here next week.
It is true that the contemplated
Franco-Oerman declaration Is valid
only for France's continental terri
tory and does not apply to the whole
of the French overseas empire. But
that .declaration would lose much
of its Vorth, In the judgment of the
French government, if,1 at the very
moment when the Reich binds Itself
to respect the French frontiers, it
went on to join hands with Italy to
precipitate disruption of French
Northferfi Africa.
M. Bonnet’s aim all along has
been to purchase from Germany the
security of the French possessions
at the expense of the. Franco-Soviet
treaty of mutual assistance. If it
now turns out that Germany, as the
outcome of her own commitments
toward Italy, cannot deliver the
goods, all that policy will fall to the
ground.
(Ceanteht. less, hr the North AaitrCag
Ntwapieer AUUuce. Ine.)
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Ir the Associated Press.
CHILLIOOTHE, Ohio,.Dec 3 —
Robert Bready, 39, who said he
fought in the Spanish war for a
"thrill,” was charged with first-de
gree murder today in the slaying of
his pastor-father, Dr. Russell H.
Bready, prominent Methodist min
ister in Ohio and Michigan.
Prosecutor Lester S. Reid said
Bready would be arraigned Monday.
The son, who told Mr. Reid he had
"made a career of drinking,” con
fessed last night, the prosecutor
said, to shooting 83-year-old Dr.
Bready in their home at nearby
Bainbridge.
Son, 29, Is Charged
In Ohio Slaying of
Pastor-Father
Prisoner Is Unable to
Remember Completely
What Happened
Nervous and Remorseful.
Lodged In jail here^ Bready was
described by Mr. Reid as very ner
vous and remorseful. He ad mated
drinking considerable apple Vine *
prior to his father's return home
from a fraternal meeting, the prose
cutor said, but denied he had inten
tionally fired the fatal revolver bullet
into the pastor’s head.
“Why did your dad take you out
walking? • • • Wer? you tearing up
the house?” Prosecutor Retd asked.
"Yes; pretty wild.” was the reply.
Bready said he recalled “being in
the big yard between the house and
the church. • • • I can't give you
the details. I am morally certain
that we scuffled and the upshot is
dad was shot.”
Not Certain About Scuffle.
Bready said, in answer to a ques
tion, that he was not certain whether
he scuffled with his father over a
bottle or the gun.
Asked why he had the pistol.
Bready. who^said he had served 20
days with the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade, fighting the Loyalist forces
inflpaln, replied:
"Kind of childish kick about car
rying the gun and I felt a little
nervous about possible retaliation
frotn the Communists because of my
magazine work.”
Brfady said he had planned to
return to the war In Spain with
the Intention of joining the forces
opposed to the loyalists.
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Unidentified Man Killed
In Auto Collision
An unidentified colored man was
killed last night in a head-on col
lision of two automobiles at Lee
highway and North Stafford street
in Arlington County, Va.
Police said the accident occurred
when a car driven by Harvey T.
Hildreth, of 1839 Summit place
N.W., skidded on ice and struck a
machine driven by the colored man.
The Clarendon Rescue Squad
carried the victim to Georgetown
Hospital, where he was pronounced
dead on arrival. The body was re
moved to the morgue to await iden
tification.
In an accident early this morning,
three persons, all colored, were
injured when an automobile driven
by 8milie Kyle. 30. colored, of the
2200 block of Eighth street N.W.,
got out of control and. crashed into
a telephone pole at Rhode Island
avenue- and Fourteenth street N.E.
Three passengers. Ssiebelle Wade.
29. and Mary Davis, 19. of the 2700
block of Rodman road, and Annie
Hardy, 28. of the 1200 block of New
Jersey avenue N. w„ received head
and leg injuries. They were ad
mitted to Freedman's Hospital.
Kyle was arrested and charged
with reckless driving.
Treasury Outlines Plan
For Refinancing
Bj the Associated Press.
The Treasury made preliminary
announcement yesterday of terms of
its December $1,641,613,750 financing.
•To raise $700,000,000 for operating
expenses, the Treasury will sell $400.
000,000 of per cent,- long-term
bonds and $300,000,000 five-year
notes. - The maturity date of the
bond and the interest rate of the
note will be made public next Mon
day morning.
To refund $9^1,613.750 of l'i per
cent notes maturing next March 15,
thr Treasury will ofTer holders an
exchange rf either the same types
of bonds and notes to be sold for
sash or a shorter term bond bear
ing 2 per cent Interest.
The 2»i per cent interest Ate oti
the long-term bond offering indi
cated it would not mature /or at
least 15 years, since the Treasury
sold 12 to 1» year bonds bearing 2H
pee cent only three*months ago.
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U. 2. Withdraws Offer
On Wheat Subsidies
By the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department dis
closed yesterday it had agreed to
withdraw its offer to subsidize ex
ports of flour to Great Britain, be
cause of recent transactions involv
ing the sale of 20,000.000 bushels of
unprocessed wheat to British millers.
Since early in September, the
Government has been paying an
export subsidy on all flour sold for
export. The rate averaged about
59 cents a barrel between September
and NovQpiber 15 and stood at 95
ctfits a barrel today on shipments
from Eastern seaboard ports.
Officials said that in return for
the agreement of British millers to
purchase surplus American wheat,
the United States would no longer
offer the subsidy on flour sold to
the United Kingdom.
Bridge Tourney Resumes
The American Legion bAdge
tournament will he resumed tonight
at the American War Mothers’
national headquarters. 1527 New
Hampshire avenue N.W Women’s
and men's pair matches are sched
uled.
Prizes will be awarded to the win
ners and runners-up.
Fire Damages Building *
Fire breaking out near the f».e
of a coal stove this morning dam
aged the building at 906 D street
N.W.. 'occupied by Mllsam’a Pawn
broker Exchange. The Are extended £
up through two unoccupied upper
storied of the building, but v as4
quickly placed under control and
extinguished. • •
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